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447, Lot: 311. Estimate $100.
Sold for $118. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Emesa. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (27.5mm, 12.35 g, 7h). Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; between legs, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Shamash left; crescent to left of Shamash. Prieur 1018 (this coin). Lightly toned with underlying luster, weakly struck on reverse. EF. Very rare, only six noted by Prieur, and two in CoinArchives.


From the Michel Prieur Collection.